Kratos lands Navy contract for unmanned aerial drone command-and-control systems

 

Launching a Navy drone
Launching a Navy drone

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc., a national security solutions provider, announced on Feb. 11 that its Micro Systems, Inc. subsidiary recently received a four-year Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) from the U.S. Navy valued at up to $29.6 million for unmanned aerial drone command and control systems and services.

Under the new BOA award, Kratos can be issued orders to provide engineering support and develop upgrades to unmanned aerial drone command and control electronics and related ground control stations over the next four years. Kratos is a provider of high performance unmanned drone aircraft and these systems’ related avionics, electronics, command and control systems, solutions, services and logistics.

“Micro Systems is proud to have received this recent BOA from this valued customer,” said Kevin Ferguson, senior vice president of Micro Systems, Inc. “We look forward to continuing our long and highly successful relationship with the U.S. Navy’s Aerial Target & Decoy Systems Program Executive Office. As we enter 2014, we believe that our business is very well positioned to meet or exceed our customers’ requirements for high performance unmanned aerial drone command and control electronics and support services.”